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Free web hosting is a boon to phishers

Sometimes it seems that every legitimate service offered online can be misused by phishers, scammers and cyber criminals in general. Free mail services are abused to send out …

App that revealed most common iPhone passcodes booted from App Store

Following the publication of the statistics concerning the most common iPhone passcodes that application developer Daniel Amitay has shared on Tuesday, Apple’s …

Huge decline of Autorun-abusing malware

Infections with malware that abuses the Windows Autorun feature by automatically enabling AutoPlay have been declining since February, says Microsoft, and credits the security …

Microsoft investigates emerging Internet phone scam

An Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875, according to Microsoft. The scam works by criminals posing as computer security …

Risk management under pressure

Has the financial services industry reached a comfort zone, placing it in jeopardy of another crisis? Are today’s risk management practices and reporting in tune with …

Protect yourself while surfing the mobile web

Lookout Mobile Security introduced Safe Browsing to protect against online threats when surfing the Web from a mobile device. Safe Browsing users can feel confident that they …

F-Secure Mobile Security 7 protects smartphones and tablets

The mobile world is changing fast. Smartphones and tablet computers are at the cutting edge of technological sophistication and defining what is cool to a new generation of …

Man convicted for using DDoS attacks in extortion scheme

A German man has been convicted to a 34-month prison sentence and has been ordered to pay some 350,000 Euros to the companies he blackmailed by threatening to take down their …

Citigroup data theft the result of a common vulnerability

If the information the NYT has received about the Citigroup breach is correct, and the intrusion was made possible by the exploitation of a vulnerability so frequent and …

Adobe Shockwave player multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Shockwave Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system, according to Secunia. 1. …

LulzSec DDoS rampage downs game servers and sites

Tuesday has been another busy day for the LulzSec bunch, and has witnessed DDoS attacks against a number of targets. It all started with the downing of the website of the …

Malware activity hitting peaks of 10 million pieces per day

Virus and malware activity increased during the month of May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, according to AppRiver. Major news events, once …

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